Bill Barr announced today that the Investigation of the Oranges of the Investigation bagged its prey — Kevin Clinesmith, the lone FBI agent who admitted to changing an email, which was reported last year:
The lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, 38, who was assigned to the Russia investigation, plans to admit that he altered an email from the C.I.A. that investigators relied on to seek renewed court permission in 2017 for a secret wiretap on the former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, who had at times provided information to the spy agency. Mr. Clinesmith’s lawyers said he made a mistake while trying to clarify facts for a colleague, the people said.
I don’t think that’s going to be good enough for Trumpie:
“I hope he’s [Barr] doing a great job, and I hope they’re not going to be politically correct. Obama knew everything. Vice President Biden, as dumb as he may be, knew everything, and everybody else knew.”
“And Comey, and Brennan, and Clapper, they were all terrible, they lied to Congress.
“They spied on my campaign, which is treason.They spied, both before and after I won, using the intelligence apparatus of the United States to take down a president, a legally elected president, a duly elected president of the United States. It is the single biggest political crime in the history of our country.”
The president went on to say he hopes Durham is “doing a job,” and that his team “is not going to be politically correct and just get a couple of the lower guys.”
“Bill Barr can go down as the greatest attorney general in the history of our country, or he can go down as an average guy. We’ll see what happens,” Trump said.
The president doubled down, saying: “Bill Barr and Durham have a chance to be — Bill Barr is great most of the time, but if he wants to be politically correct, he’ll be just another guy.”
“They have all the answers,” Trump said. “It goes all to Obama, and it goes right to Biden.”
If Barr thinks he’s going to be thanked by Dear Leader for nabbing Clinesmith, he’s got another thing coming. Trump wants Obama and Biden and he wants Barr to “lock them up!”